What worries me about things like this is that when/if scientists
actually do find proof of extraterrestrial life in meteorites, stories
like this will dilute the fantastic nature of such a discovery...!
Eric
On 11/29/2010 9:20 AM, JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote:
The press conference is tomorrow. This could be as big as Roswell! I
can't wait:
http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/will-proof-of-extraterrestrial-life-be-revealed-at-a-michigan-ramada-inn/19735919
Will Proof of Extraterrestrial Life Be Revealed at a Ramada Inn?
Larry Knowles
AOL News
(Nov. 29) -- A Michigan man claiming to possess an ice meteorite rich
in extraterrestrial organisms will announce in a news conference
Tuesday that alien life, at long last, has been found. The
announcement will take place at a Ramada Inn in South Haven, Mich.
"I prayed for Jesus to send me an ice meteorite, because I knew it
would be quite valuable," Duane P. Snyder, 65, said of the chunk of
ice he found on a South Haven roadway in 2000.
Valuable indeed. For centuries, humankind has sought confirmation that
it isn't alone in the universe. If Snyder's claim is accurate, the
South Haven resident will be catapulted to worldwide fame, and the
Ramada Inn, 50 miles west of Kalamazoo, will likely become an iconic
landmark for the human race.
Duane P. Snyder
E.T. may phone home -- from a Ramada Inn in South Haven, Mich. The red
object above was found embedded in a chunk of ice in 2000. The owner
of the chunk, Duane P. Snyder, believes the squiggle is an alien life
form and will discuss his finding at the Ramada Inn this week.
In March 2000, Snyder noticed several chunks of ice on the road near
his home. Since it hadn't snowed for weeks, he deduced that the ice
must have been an ice meteorite. After gathering up a few pieces and
stashing them in his freezer, he spent the next 10 years trying to
convince scientists to analyze the frozen mass.
However, Snyder received little interest from the scientific
community, and in September, he paid to have chemical analyses
performed by two commercial laboratories. What the labs found -- that
samples contained particles with unique molecular structures --
convinced Snyder that he indeed had in his possession alien life forms.
He has set up a website, snydericyrite.com, where people can purchase
the lab reports and photos of the particles. He's given the particles
descriptive names, such as "Red Watani Worm," "Six Legged Life Form"
and "Clear Snakelike Life Form."
In a phone interview with AOL News, Snyder emphasized that more
rigorous analysis is needed to determine just what sort of alien life
form he has, adding that the prohibitive cost has so far prevented him
from getting tests done.
"I'm hoping some scientist calls and says, 'Hey, Duane, I'll do it for
you,'" Snyder said.
Last week, Snyder took strides toward getting that call. He issued a
press release, under the headline "Ice Meteorite Found With
Extraterrestrial Life-Forms," in which he announced Tuesday's news
conference.
The release received worldwide distribution and, according to Snyder,
media outlets from Germany, Mexico and Sweden plan to cover the story.
All the attention means that, for a brief moment, the Ramada Inn in
South Haven will be at the center of the world -- or, in this case,
universe. And that has the staff at the Ramada Inn slightly anxious.
"We haven't had a chance to speak with Mr. Snyder," Saima Farrukh,
director of operations for the Ramada Inn in South Haven, told AOL
News. "And we're all kind of curious to know what kind of life form he
has."
Farrukh added that the press release only piqued her curiosity.
"It didn't give a lot of info," she said, "so I was going through my
chemistry book to find out what the terms mean."
Snyder, a former Air Force mechanic and self-described inventor, spent
a good portion of his life looking for meteorites before stumbling on
his momentous block of ice.
"I'd been hunting meteorites for a long time," he said, "and I kept
finding 'meteor-wrongs.'"
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